Ulrikke Berg Heivoll hired as program director for craft traditions

Ulrikke Berg Heivoll has been appointed as the new program manager with responsibility for craft traditions. In this position, she will be responsible for making traditional crafts and intangible cultural heritage accessible to the public through the development, planning and implementation of projects and public programs. The work will be based on the museum's collections, cultural historical buildings and museum facilities, and will contribute to communicating, continuing and updating relevant craft traditions. She will take up the position on 1 April 2026.

Heivoll comes from the position of project manager responsible for the development of dissemination, communication and information center for the Medieval City of Oslo. Here, she has led, among other things, the extensive dissemination project "Get involved in building Medieval Oslo", a practical workshop project that involved over 2,000 schoolchildren. She has broad experience in developing public programs that communicate traditional crafts and intangible cultural heritage in engaging and inclusive ways.

She has an extensive professional network within cultural heritage, building conservation and crafts, and has collaborated closely with actors such as the Norwegian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, the Norwegian Association of Historical Monuments, Building and Conservation, NIKU and a number of local partners. Heivoll has nearly 30 years of experience in communication, PR and information work, as well as project coordination and management, events and destination development.

Her professional experience includes positions at the Oslo City Council's Cultural Affairs Office (from 2020), the Kon-Tiki Museum (2016–2021), the Henie-Onstad Art Center (2014–2016), the Riis Gallery (2000–2013) and the Department of Archaeology, Art History and Conservation at the University of Oslo (1997–2000). She has extensive experience in planning and producing exhibitions, publications, digital photo archives, websites and content production for social media, and is known for her high execution skills and great capacity in project management.

Heivoll holds a cand.philol. from the University of Oslo (2000) with a major in art history, as well as undergraduate and intermediate courses in Spanish, English and art history. She also has a university degree in project management with a specialization in contract management from Molde University College (2014).